And, I believe that if a man dies with a single penny still sitting in the bank, he's a fool.
I'm blessed with a pretty good voice. So just sitting back there banging on the tubs wasn't enough.
Does an artist truly need to understand her times in order to create? I'm not sure. We're all sitting in a context. It's a market.
It is kind of lovely to be sitting alone, just thinking, very quiet, no one around. I don't feel alone or left out.
This decision is an illustration that freedom of speech still protects average people sitting on a street corner singing.
The true creativity comes out of sitting silently. When you are so totally quiet that there is no thought, no wave in the ocean of your being, out of this silence comes a different kind of creativity.
I don't look back, no. Maybe when I'm older; people say, 'What's your favorite film?' I say, 'My next one. ' I'm not interested in sitting around; I just don't, never have.
I remember sitting in school and thinking, 'I don't know why I'm here, because I know I'm going to act and I know I'm going to America. '
I can't ever remember sitting around and saying, 'gosh let's hurry up and get these debates going, that'll win it for me. ' Nope.
Shall I make it clear, boys, for all to apprehend, Those that will not hear, boys, waiting for the end, Knowing it is near, boys, trying to pretend, Sitting in cold fear, boys, waiting for the end?
I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself.
I tried to pretend that I was sitting in the stands with a buddy watching the game - poking him in the ribs when something exciting happened.
Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To know that the mind is empty is to see the buddha. . . . Using the mind to reality is delusion. Not using the mind to look for reality is awareness. Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
Ce'Nedra returned, frowning and a little angry. "They won't give me their eggs, Lady Polgara," she complained. "They're sitting one them. " "You have to reach under them and take the eggs, dear. " "Won't that make them angry?" "Are you afraid of a chicken?
I swear to you, sitting a throne is a thousand times harder than winning one.
Much more of the brain is devoted to movement than to language. Language is only a little thing sitting on top of this huge ocean of movement.
You don't turn out as many books as I did then by sitting around, being cozy with the family.
I tried softball and soccer. I just didn't take as much of a liking to it as I did sitting in a movie theater and watching people recreate a story, and doing it myself, as well.
My challenges have not been around music. My hardest thing in music was just sitting down and teaching myself how to play and believing in myself.
I'm not very good at sitting still.